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Comment by Sirisha Rambhatla
Professor of management science and engineering at the University of Waterloo; director of its Critical Machine Learning Lab.
When the safety guardrails are stripped out of a capable model, it can be used at scale for harm in ways a single person could never manage manually. [...] The leading open-weight models are often not too far behind the best closed models. As they grow more powerful, the potential consequences of someone stripping out their safety features grow with them.AI Verified (Aug 25, 2026)
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The quote says safeguards of open-weight models are weaker or removable, directly supporting the comparative danger claim.
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Hector Perez Arenas
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Hector Perez Arenas
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The stored University of Waterloo source passage attributes this exact quote to Rambhatla; the linked release was not fetchable.
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Hector Perez Arenas
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replying to Sirisha Rambhatla